Antidepressants

Try a Bit of Therapy or Twelve Step Support With Your Exercise?

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living


Dr. Tian Dayton

We have to move to activate the "feel good" body chemicals that are built into us as nature's mood stabilizers and mood elevators.

Exercise: The Best Antidepressant Ever?

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 06.12.2008 | Living


Dr. Tian Dayton

The science behind just how and why exercise can help to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression has been a much studied topic over the last two dec...

America's Medicated Army: Pentagon Turns to Antidepressants for Stressed-Out Troops

Tony Newman | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


Tony Newman

When one considers the experiences of veterans, it is understandable that many would suffer from PTSD and take drugs to deal with their mental and physical trauma.

How To Balance Your Moods Naturally

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living


Dr. Tian Dayton

Nature has built natural "anti depressants" right into our bodies that we can activate whenever we need to. It is remarkably easy to attain a "feel good" state if we just adopt a few proactive habits and keep them going.

Do You Believe in Objective (Ha! Ha! Wink, Wink!) Science?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living


Alison Rose Levy

There's no doubt that some drugs are beneficial and even life-saving, but there's no way to know which ones are truly effective or necessary until all the real outcomes are considered.

Awkward Situations, Antidepressants, And Eating For Two

Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 04.06.2008 | Living


Dr. Belisa Vranich

Dear Doc, I got some sort of ruthless feedback from an exasperated friend. She said I always ask questions that "corner" people, and don't "give them...

What Was in the Water Spitzer Drank?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media


Alison Rose Levy

Just like Eliot Spitzer, all of us have addictions to unhook from. For news junkies, the addiction to disposable news hooks, celebrity pix, or sex tea...

Online Therapy: The Next Frontier

The Times | Peta Bee | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living


A growing body of research has found that when - and this is crucial - it is carried out responsibly, and kept specific, online therapy is one of the ...

The Benefits Of Depression

BBC | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living


Earlier this week British researchers made headlines with their report that antidepressants are for the most part ineffective. Read our coverage of t...

Don't Get Depressed Because Your Antidepressant is a Placebo

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 02.27.2008 | Living


Alison Rose Levy

Do antidepressants actually balance brain chemistry? Or do they merely intervene in brain chemistry in a way that could potentially perpetuate or worsen any imbalance?

Do Antidepressants Actually Work? Research Says Probably Not

Reuters | Will Dunham and Julie Steenhuysen | Posted 02.26.2008 | Living


British researchers have released a report that claims that antidepressants, for the most part, are ineffective. The researchers found that compared ...

How Not to Die Like Heath Ledger, Part II

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.06.2008 | Living


Maia Szalavitz

Naloxone should be kept in every first aid kit. Even when overdoses involve multiple drugs, simply taking away the effect of the opioid is often all that is needed to revive the victim.

FDA: Effectiveness Of Popular Antidepressants Exaggerated

Wall Street Journal | DAVID ARMSTRONG and KEITH J. WINSTEIN | Posted 01.17.2008 | Business


The effectiveness of a dozen popular antidepressants has been exaggerated by selective publication of favorable results, according to a review of unpu...

Why I Don't "Disease" Depression

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living


Bruce E. Levine

Instead of labeling depression as weakness or illness, we might better decrease depression by understanding it as a normal, albeit painful, human reaction.

Has Psychiatry Earned Its Unpopularity?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 10.29.2007 | Living


Bruce E. Levine

While psychiatry may want to blame its current unpopularity on the press, the corporate media is generally reluctant to challenge a powerful institution until it is already out of favor.

Antidepressants Cool Down Hot Flashes

New York Times | TARA PARKER-POPE | Posted 10.09.2007 | Living


Doctors are writing a new prescription for menopause: the antidepressant. It's not that all menopausal women are depressed. Instead, the antidepressa...

The Politics Behind Despair and Depression

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 10.05.2007 | Living


Bruce E. Levine

Historically, those who profit from the status quo have preferred to explain unhappiness, despair and what is now called depression as caused by personal defects.

Antidepressants Vindicated?

Gregg Easterbrook | Posted 09.07.2007 | Living


Gregg Easterbrook

Antidepressant use is declining and youth suicide is rising -- should the linkage between these events be viewed as some huge surprise, as the media now imply in the wake of yesterday's CDC report?


 

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